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Daniel Read

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Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Warwick. Associate editor, Management Science Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uhMoc_8AAAAJ&hl=en Strategic Information Network: https://sites.google.com/view/strategicinf

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 3h

The article is hilarious as he keeps telling on himself.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12h

Perhaps a more likely route -- they are showing that crime is OK and in fact is not really crime at all.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12h

How many lottery tickets do you buy?

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 23h

The movie is very often better than the book (but still less than half the time)

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 23h

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's second best book.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 1d

The soothing miracle of hindsight bias.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 1d

This is grotesque. Few people we interact with everyday have a level standard English.

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

Migrants will need to be able to speak English to an A-level standard, the government announces.

www.bbc.co.uk

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 1d

Quite beautiful

Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton

In The Free Press, Woody Allen remembers Diane Keaton. “When we first met,” he writes, “I thought she was so charming, so beautiful, so magical, that I thought: Was it possible to fall in love so quic...

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 2d

Which memorials are these? The War Memorial Park in Coventry has 1914-1918 so this makes me curious.

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 4d

There you have it, it’s already started. Glad I didn’t invest my time there.

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know about this either, but it is a bit like biblical justice or at least "restorative" justice. If you learn something let us know.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 5d

"learned" this today.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 5d

No doubt either way there would be controversy. Lots of interest in the prize this year.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel peace prize is going to be a big source of controversy today.

María Corina Machado - Wikipedia

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 5d

I am worried about what he will think about on Saturday.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 7d

The conservative party are doomed to extinction. They are grasping at straws. Proposing policies that no party who expects to manage a country would propose.

Kemi Badenoch Conservative Party conference speech: follow live

The Tory leader is outlining her party's new economic rule designed to cut taxes and government borrowing.

www.bbc.co.uk

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 7d

Shakespeare could have watched The Duchess of Malfi.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 8d

The typo "Busker Keaton" appears in this article. I recommend it as a great name for a band or even a nom-de-tune for an individual. Move quickly because it will be gone soon.

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 8d

Its like a Greek tragedy.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 8d

Setting the lowest of low bars.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 11d

I expect SurveyMonkey accesses mostly people who spend a lot of time online and perhaps have nothing better to do than answer surveys. But regardless its a pretty interesting study.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 11d

The sampling process. I was really hoping to find some obvious nonsense for teaching purposes.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 11d

The study is not as badly designed as people are saying. Here is the link. vantagepointdallascounseling.com/research/art...

Artificial Romance: A Study of AI and Human Relationships

Explore how AI relationships are reshaping intimacy and fidelity, and learn reflective questions to stay grounded in human connection. - Vantage Point Counseling Services - Dallas, TX.

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12d

The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. -- Mickey Spillane on addiction to reading.

Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12d

From today's perspective, it is so difficult to understand how someone like Hitler could have come to power, surrounded himself with loyal supporters, and brought a large proportion of the population with him. Thankfully it will never happen again.